Blessings of Babel
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Blessings of Babel

Bilingualism and Language Planning. Problems and Pleasures

  1. 185 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Blessings of Babel

Bilingualism and Language Planning. Problems and Pleasures

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1. Babel
  3. 2. On Growing Up Bilingual
  4. 3. Bilingual Competence
  5. 4. The Ethnic Imperative
  6. 5. An Ecological Model
  7. 6. The Communicative Norm
  8. 7. Social Integration
  9. 8. Sociolinguistics: A Challenge
  10. 9. Pluralism: A National Goal?
  11. 10. Language Planning
  12. 11. Implementation
  13. 12. Semicommunication
  14. 13. Interlanguage
  15. 14. English: Modernization
  16. 15. Faroese: Ecology
  17. 16. Icelandic: Pronominal Address
  18. 17. Norwegian: Forms of Address
  19. 18. Norwegian: Sexism
  20. 19. Norwegian: A Frontier
  21. 20. Ethnicity: Swedes and Norwegians
  22. 21. Relativity
  23. 22. Bilingual Judgments
  24. 23. Language Choice
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index